How to Submit Electronic Course Approvals

• New course
• Renumber
• Deletion
• Adding/ deleting enrollment restriction
• Reinstating course
• Cross-listing or conjoining
• Changes in:
  • Title
  • Course number
  • Units
  • Description
  • Prerequisites
  • Grading option
  • Instructor contact hours
  • Repetition of credit option
  • Final exam requirement
  • Instruction type

E-mail the Scheduling Office to request access to the eCourse system. In your e-mail, include:

• Name, department, e-mail address, employee ID number, and
• If you are requesting to be provisioned as a requestor role or an approver role (chair or vice chair of department only).

To access the eCourse system once you're provisioned, log on to ecourse.ucsd.edu with your Single Sign-On credentials.

• eCourse training is recommended; see number 3.

The diagram in this eCourse Workflow (PDF) illustrates the steps an eCourse request will go through in the electronic course approval system. Note that there are multiple approval steps.

Approvals should be submitted a minimum of three quarters (including summer) before the effective quarter of the new approval. For example, a course approval for Fall quarter should be submitted no later than Winter quarter.

• Read the eCourse FAQs (PDF); this document will be updated periodically.
• Additional information: Faculty Instructional Activity Types: Guidelines for Classifying Courses (PDF)